#someone teach him how to use reddit

[smallermangoes]

You can thank or blame @mellifloss and @kittysquire for whatever this is. I am the number one cringe Rei Sakuma apologist, I think he could be even more cringe actually.

[weirdero]

I’ve seen a lot of people speculating that Gemma’s storyline will lead to a cloning reveal, which like, it’s a decent theory and wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. But god, this show is so specific and detail oriented Ben Stiller himself has even said nothing in the show is a coincidence. The cloning theory has also been shut down a couple times by some producers and writes from what I understand and idk I feel like a cloning reveal would just be so boring. And honestly, I don’t know if this is insane, but I’m fully leaning towards the idea that when it comes to Ms. Casey/Gemma, it’s more of a resurrection situation.

Okay so hear me out I believe our Ms. Casey is still physically Gemma her original body, her bones, her blood she’s alive baby that’s her but like also it’s not her. It’s like in horror or fantasy stories when a character dies and comes back but comes back wrong YK?. Physically it’s still them but it’s not them. In my opinion, her brain has been completely reset, wiping away whatever kind of person she used to be.

To back this theory I’ve been heavily leaning on the interaction between Ms. Cobel and Helena in the parking lot and just the general existence of the Mammalian Nurturable department.

Now, I might be reading into this too much, but I just love these characters so much and this show so please bear with me, this is a long one.

this season Harmony/Ms. Cobel is a problem. Like there is just no way she isn’t. Lumon is already struggling to keep it together after the scandal the main four caused, and a change in management isn’t helping. People are (probably) starting to pay attention, and they do not need that kind of heat. Ms. Cobel literally crashing tf out making herself homeless and sneaking around in the dark probably isn’t helping.

Helena’s choice of words have always stood out to me. She’s calculated, smart, and precise in how she speak just like Harmony. Both of them are masters at saying exactly what they need to without ever outright saying it yk? So when she she spots Cobel in the parking lot in the middle of the night she clocks her immediately.

Harmony walks out as if she still has a job in that bitch and has the audacity to tell Helena what her needs are and exactly how they should be met. And in my opinion, Helena is appalled but not surprised. She calls her out on her behavior.

“I hear ego, hubris, and arrogance. Kier teaches us they only cause pain.”

To me, this isn’t just a read it’s a warning. Harmony doesn’t take it. She bites back, calling Helena a NEPOTISM BABY. wild.

And I mean look at Helena’s face.

So Helena lays it out for her as plainly as possible

“We didn’t have to ask you back.”

No translation even needed, she just said it flat out Baby, we don’t need you here. You do not, no matter what you think, represent us. You are not Lumon.

And Harmony, being just as cunty clocks her shit right back

“You didn’t have a choice.”

At this point, Ms. Cobel isn’t just skating on thin ice she’s walking across a frozen lake in metal combat boots, her ass skipping around as if the ice won’t break. And that’s her mistake.

Helena, after giving Harmony multiple chances to walk away. Multiple chances to come back in on lumons terms. Multiple chances to stop playing in her fucking face, finally pulls back with a kind smile and offers her a chance to “restart”.

As they walk towards the car, Ms. Cobel locks eyes with Helena’s bodyguard and the instant terror is actually insane. Full deer in headlights.

A lot of people saw that shot and took it as a straight-up Sopranos esque death threat like, if she gets in that car, she’s not gonna survive the drive (RIP Audriana). And sure, it could be as simple as that, but this show is just way too good for it to be that simple.

I think Cobel recognizes the bodyguard. She knows him and I mean like fr knows him.

I saw a theory on Reddit suggesting that the bodyguard might be someone she knew maybe a former coworker, someone from her personal life (they suggested it could’ve been someone she was super close with before she even became the woman we know today) idk just somebody she knows knows and out of nowhere suddenly, he’s here, presented as Helena’s bodyguard. But it’s not him. It’s his skin, his bones, his blood but it’s not HIM.

And the way it plays out, it doesn’t seem like the bodyguard recognizes her at least not in the same way she knows him. That stare man that stare. I didn’t even know Harmony could experience fear. Who knows, maybe in that moment she’s reflecting on everything that’s happened. She bitched out the boss’s daughter in this empty ass parking lot on the brink of a mental break down, and suddenly there’s a chance to start over. All she has to do is get in that car, with that man, talk to the higher-ups, and hit the “reset” button.

Basically my theory is that Lumon are essentially grave robbing the fuck out of that town. Taking people who have been in serious accidents car crashes, house fires, construction site falls, factory explosion, hell even a drive by. I also think they’re also taking drug addicts, the homeless people who have no loved ones looking out for them, or even looking for them at all, the ones who are confirmed to be gone in every way, physically or emotionally. They’re taking these people and giving them a full system reset rebooting the computer.

By doing this, Lumon gets to create a free labor force that works 24/7 without question or resistance, exploiting people who have no emotional ties or support systems. Blank slate baby! They’re also using these individuals as test subjects for whatever weird shit they wanna launch out as a new product.

This helps explain a lot of the weird shit going on with the employees at Mammalian Nurturable. They look so rough and are also really off-putting towards outsiders. Which is understandable but I genuinely believe they haven’t even “clocked out” in days, if not ever.

Even though this theory makes the most sense to me, It still has its plot holes like if Gemma isn’t a clone and it’s her “resurrected” where does she go when she’s not her innie. In Season 1, she tells Mark she’s only conscious as her innie for a couple of minutes at a time, and the longest she’s ever stayed “alive” was the 8 hours she spent with his department. So where tf is she if not there as Ms Casey i don’t know man I do not know.

Anyways I have some other general curiosities about the town itself and why Lumon decided to build their main building there. I saw a TikTok video of someone saying it reminded them of company-built towns like Hershey Pennsylvania or Kodak Town, and I agree. Anywho I love this show so much it hurts I hope it never dies I literally missed having an obsession this intense I hope it gets all the love and awards it deserves!!

[deathlygristly]

For some reason I decided to read a Reddit thread on When The Phone Rings. Yes, I know, that's on me. But I've seen the sentiment on here too.

I guess it's what the kids call "antis"? Like this is a fictional show, none of it is real, and I seriously doubt any of the people watching will ever get switched for their older step-sister in an arranged marriage to the presidential spokesperson, who is the son of another chaebol family that's into politics. But then it turns out that the original son of the political family was a serial killer and the grandfather tried to drown him when he was a kid and then replaced him with the orphan who grew up to be the spokesperson. But the serial killer son survived the drowning attempt, and now the grown up serial killer son and also possibly the twin of one of the serial killer's victims is coming after the adopted son.

Like y'all are not going to be in this situation IRL, okay? You are not going to be in an arranged marriage with a man who is severely traumatized by seeing the drowning attempt, being taken from the man who had taken him in and raised him, and forced to live with people who did not like him and who controlled and abused him and who only wanted to use him to appear "normal" and "likable" so they could win elections and get political power.

And if you ever are in that situation for some reason, it's extremely unlikely that after three years of not communicating at all and pretty much being strangers you'll be targeted by a kidnapper, steal the kidnapper's phone, use the phone to finally communicate a bit, and end up with your husband revealing that he's obsessively loved you all along.

This is fiction. Maybe the female lead falling down a cliff and being fine and the male lead being in two explosions and being fine would clue you in on that? I don't know. Like someone said in the thread, these people must be why dramas all have a disclaimer now at the beginning saying that the drama is fiction and the events aren't real or based on anything real. Not that it helps.

It's just....it's weird and kind of conservative Christian culty how they're all "oh noes but young girls will think that it's okay if their husband doesn't talk to them for three years and is a bit mean!" If you're really worried about that then maybe you should be teaching your daughters or younger sisters or young female friends or students or whatever about boundaries and abuse and emotional awareness instead of not communicating with them at all, like how you say it's so bad that the characters are doing in the beginning of the show?

Also, okay, I've been married for 22 years and we started dating 25 years ago. I can assure you that the spousal person is awesome and our relationship is fine and healthy and the people at our favorite restaurant exclaim over us every time we come in and when I was in the hospital after gallbladder surgery the doctors called us "lovebirds." It's very easy to separate reality from fiction and to enjoy watching characters and stories that aren't your personal perfect ideal template of whatever and still have a healthy and enjoyable life.

If it's not easy for you, I think that's more a personal matter that you need to investigate and work on in your own life instead of judging and hating strangers online about it? Maybe you could look into resources for recovery from high control groups?

[cyren-myadd]

BTS of Spider

Look at his little roar! He's ferocious 😂

They're leaving Kiri behind 😭

These BTS images were shared by reddit user u/Shoddy-Magician-9470, and they're not technically new, they're from behind the scenes videos that were released ages ago, but they're new to me so I want to talk about them! These images could either be discarded stuff from Avatar 2 or stuff from Avatar 3 since the BTS images were taken when they were working on both movies.

I believe the first two images are discarded scenes from A2 because Spider doesn't have the forehead stripe or Metkayina garments we've seen him wear in BTS shots that are definitely from A3. The first one specifically reminds me of a deleted scene early in A2 where Spider, Lo'ak, and Tuk investigate a crashed Samson while exploring the jungle. Lo'ak climbs up first, so maybe this is Spider yelling at him or something. I also notice that Spider isn't wearing his Omaticaya armbands and his stripe pattern is slightly different from the movie in the first two images, so maybe those actually are from an early scene in A3 after all, but it could also be that they're just early test footage before they got his look finalized.

The last image is the most interesting to me, because this one looks like it could be from Avatar 3. It's hard to tell from the unfinished render, but Spider's waistcloth looks like the orange-brown sea grass one he wears in A3 not the dark brown cloth one he wore in A2. Lo'ak is also wearing ikran-riding leggings that we've never seen him wear before, and he's carrying a gun, which he only ever used once in A2 and that was on the Sea Dragon, not the jungle.

This reminds me of a specific BTS scene I've seen of Britain (Lo'ak), Trinity (Tuk), and the stunt doubles for Spider and Kiri running from something around jungle props while Lo'ak holds a gun. I believe this is the render of that scene, but this doesn't really give us much information. All we know is that at some point the kids will be back in the jungle together, Lo'ak will have a gun, and they're gonna be chased by something or someone. Maybe this is the scene leading up to them getting captured by Varang and/or Quaritch 🤔 The fact that Lo'ak has a gun also makes me wonder if Jake is going to teach the kids more about human weapons in A3. Maybe after hearing about how Neteyam died, Jake will wonder if Neteyam could've lived if he'd been a better shot with a gun and could've hit Wainfleet before Wainfleet had the chance to hit him.

What do you guys think?

[ilikepjo24]

Lol another dumb take on reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterRant/s/ER8SmBToSm

WOW! There are so many things to unpack here...

"Iroh, the most-" Iroh!? IROH!? THE Iroh!? The "redeemed" warlord that only gave a fuck about being a warlord after it affected him personally? That Iroh? The Iroh that left a child to bare the weight of a nation just bc he, the mature responsible adult, wanted to sit on his ass instead of being mature and responsible? THAT Iroh? It seems awful like both those actions appear to be those of a selfish and unempathetic person. And let's not forget that even after his "redemption" he assaulted June. So how exactly is he the most understanding and kind person in the show, exactly?

Would you like to know who actually is the most understanding and kind person in the show? AANG.

The boy who found it in himself to forgive and learn to have affection for the dude that chased him around the world and almost hurt/killed him and his friends multiple times. The boy who found it in himself to forgive the nation that genocided his people enough to want to help them, teach them their old ways and bring them back to the light. The boy that found it in himself to spare Ozai, a sadistic, manipulative, abusive warlord that wanted to watch the world burn in an attempt to satisfy his narcissism. And may the record note that Iroh did not extended his own brother the same mercy. He believed Ozai needed to die, when Aang didn't. So Aang is more empathetic, understanding and kind that Iroh.

And do you know what Aang has to say about Azula?

That he believes in her ability to do good and be good. That he trusts her to do so. He could have had her executed. He didn't. He could have taken away her bending. He didn't. He could have said she's born evil and a bad egg. He didn't. He put in a good word for her. He said she did something good. That can be good. THAT'S what the actual most understanding and kind person in the whole franchise has to say about Azula.

"She smiles when-" So did everyone else and so does everyone ever alive when justice is served. Because for the audience, the event was unfair and traumatizing. But for the people of the Fire Nation it was justice. And it's only normal for people to be happy when justice is served. When a groomer goes to jail you don't think "oh, that poor groomer", you think "good, this piece of shit definitely deserved it". Similarly, in the Fire Nation, an imperialistic dictatorship, when someone disrespects their Firelord, which they worship as almost a god (if not more, bc we see them worship their Firelord more often than Agni), and that person gets punished they don't think "oh, that like boy", they think "good, this piece of shit definitely deserved it". That's not called "being a bad egg", that's called propaganda and borderline mass brainwashing.

"She mocks-" She's repeating what she heard from adults in her life. That's not being a bad egg, that's bad parenting.

"She tortures-" Not cannon in any way. We've heard that she threw bread at them. Not only was that told from Zuko's pov, who's known to be a biased narrator when it comes to Azula, but it's also not even that freaking bad. It's bread, when it hits the water it becomes soft. No one ever died because they got hit by a loaf of bread. And she doesn't burn them with.

"Her mother's comments-" Oh, you mean the "what is wrong with that child"? That comment? That comment that was thrown at a child after doing a very normal childlike thing? I used to to play execution with my Barbie dolls and beheading them by pulling off their heads and my least favourites would always be the ones that got executed. Kids break toys they don't value and/or like. Azula is not obligated to like or value a gift that wasn't for her. The doll was a gift for every little girl. It wasn't personal. It wasn't hers. She doesn't have to like or value it. She doesn't have to not break it. The only reason that she chose fire instead of execution is because she had fire handy. That comment Ursa made was absolutely not justified.

"She's never given an excuse-" Not only is this take proof that media literacy is dead, it's flat out anti-intellectualism. We see that Fire Nation schools brainwash kids by shoving propaganda in their faces and we know Azula went in a Fire Nation school. All that's left to do is put 2 and 2 together. It's 4. It's fucking 4. Azula was brainwashed in the Fire Nation school that she went to that brainwashes Fire Nation kids. Canon fact. Use your brain.

"Her vision of what she wants is twisted-" What, exactly, is twisted about wanting to be acknowledged by your family that is proud of you, being loved by your family that is supposed to love you anyway, and completing the mission you've been brainwashed into thinking is the right thing all your life? What is twisted about reaching expectations and having a happy family? I'll wait.

"We're supposed to sympathize with the spi- No, we're not. The spirit is very obviously a liar and a manipulator as we've seen throughout the whole damn comic. And it wants to eat her. The spirit is the villain of the story that has been continuously twisting reality to weaken Azula's ambition and will to fight back, so that it could kill her. By the end of the comic we're supposed to know that the spirit is a full of shit and we shouldn't trust what it says, since all it has said throughout the whole comic is lies. Not sympathize with it.

"Rationalizations of her behavior are believe yet unprovable and based on subtext." It's almost like she's not the main character. The show isn't going to take time diving into her background. They are going to only give us subtext and we have to use our critical thinking skills and come to a believable conclusion, as we do. Zuko loving Ursa isn't outright stated at the show at any point, but we know it's a fact because we see it in the way they interact. We know his mother matters to him because he thinks of her and misses her. That's subtext. And we know Azula is not to blame for the person she was bought up to be because Fire Nation schools canonically brainwash their students. That's subtext. You can't selectively decide that this subtext is enough to prove this point, but that subtext doesn't prove that point because it's not outright stated. That's called double standards.

"The show portrays her as being inherently evi-" The show? You mean the same show that didn't even portray the genocider, treacherous dictator (Sozin) and the abusive, manipulative dictator (Ozai) as inherently evil went out of its way to portray the manipulated, abused, brainwashed child as a bad egg? ...Sure. That's what happened.

"Mai and Ty Lee do the same stuff but are portrayed differ-" No, they are not. Mai is portrayed as somebody who abused the power they have over others, since she views ordering servants around as a fun activity, and as somebody who has no empathy towards their family, as she didn't hesitate to agree that her brother has less worth than a king. Ty Lee is portrayed as sadistic, since she's animated to smirk and sneer while taking down soldiers defending their homes. I think she even goes as far as to mock them at sons point, but take that with a pinch of salt. They are portrayed to be classist, sadistic, unempathetic people that only give a fuck about the select few and mystery everybody else. Y'all just refuse to see it because Ty Lee is cute and is constantly infantilized because of it and because Mai protected your lord and savior, Zuko, right after she was done being classist and unempathetic. They are not portrayed as better, you just go out of your way to portray Azula as worst.

"Even in LoK-" Azula is given Freudian Excuse. You just refuse to see it because, as opposed to Legend of Korra, the creators do not chew your food up and spit it in your mouth for you to swallow. You have to put the pieces of the puzzle together and make realization. Which can understandably be hard for people that have a brain the size of a peanut, like yourself.

"It feels weird for a show like Avatar to imply somebody was evil from birt-" It feels weird because it is weird and it is weird because it's something they would never do which is why they didn't do it. You literally just created this narrative inside of your head while understanding that it goes completely against the philosophy of the show. And now it's weird to you that it doesn't align with the show? Make it make sense.

This isn't asking for an Azula redemption arc (although "this fourteen-year-old who was acting under orders of a tyrannical fire lord can't be redeemed" seems incredibly harsh), this is just me wondering why the writers consistently, across mediums, refuse to suggest that she's even the slightest bit a product of her environment? But Zuko gets a pass for pretty much everything more or less? Alright then lol.

This is close to being the smartest thing you have said during this post. Unfortunately it is easy to notice that some of the creators just don't like Azula. That's it. That's the reason why. They don't like her and they don't want her to have a happy ending. So it's good that somebody else is riding this show now. Faith Erin Hicks, as we see from her comic, is not afraid to treat Azula as the victim she is, and is not afraid to lay the blame on the adults that failed her. As opposed to previous creators, she seems to be willing to apply the general philosophy of the show in Azula's character as well. Which is something she's able to do because Azula is not, in fact, inherently evil. She's a victim of abuse and a manipulated child that has done some very fucked up things but has all her life ahead of her to grow up and be better.

Give us a scene of Ozai molding her into the cruel person she is

Supporting and praising bad behavior is enabling it. A good parent would say "I understand that you were upset at feeling as though you were underestimated when you got efficient results, but it's important to keep your cool and respect your instructors since they have more experience than you. If you feel as though the inability of this instructor to stray from traditional paterns is holding you back, communicate that problem with me, and I'll find you a new teacher if it's necessary." Does Ozai do that? No. What does he do? Praise her. What will Azula do in response? Repeat the same behavior to receive praise again. What is that called? Nursing cruel/bad behavior.

Give us a scene of Azula being at least a normal child at some point.

Stealing sweets at a sleepover and recreating scenes from a movie/play with your sibling? I recall doing both those things as a child. We're talking about universal normal child experiences.

Don't vindicate her mother being cruel.

The narrative itself is not excusing Ursa. Azula herself goes to lengths to hold her accountable, actually. The only ones excusing Ursa's actions are Zuko, who's looking at her through rose colored glasses, because she's one of the first people to show him love, and he wants to sing the best of her, and the fandom, for the same exact reason.

Have Iroh say something slightly more insightful than "she's a crazy bitch leave her alone"

Personally, I don't value Iroh's opinion at all. I think he has to work through the issues that he obviously has with himself, instead of projecting those issues onto Azula, which is what he's doing. But since you care about his opinion so much, here's him saying Azula has the capability to find peace.

Here's an easy one: instead of smiling when Zuko got burnt, Azula looks visually horrified. That tiny, tiny change would've made her far more nuanced! It wouldn't be much, but not only would it make the fire lord's actions seem even worse, it shows us that deep down, she does--or at least, did--care! This is more in line with the show's themes and far more interesting than "she's just gonna be super evil hehe".

Here's the thing. Azula doesn't smile because she's just so "evil hehe". She's smiling because Zuko is receiving a just punishment for his actions. At least as far as she's concerned.

Think about it, in the Fire Nation they treat their King as a god. They pray/say an anthem/swear loyalty to the Firelord and the crown every single day. It should be needless to point out that nobody would question the actions of the Firelord. They would just assume that this is the correct course of action because this is what the Firelord is doing.

Azula not only is a subject of that Firelord but she is the daughter of her father. She was 11 when the Agni Kai. At that age, kids do not question their parents. The think things are right because the parents do it. If Dad is upset with Zuko, then Zuko must have done something wrong, because Dad can't be wrong, he's Dad, he's never wrong.

So both as his daughter and as his subject, Azula has been conditioned from the day she was born to think that he's always right. So when he decides to punish Zuko, that's just another instance where he's right. So why would Azula be upset with him for being right? Especially considering that if she were upset with him, it's possible that you would also receive a punishment for disagreeing with his methods.

So imagine you are Azula. You see your dad, who is always right, and is also your king, who is also always right do something. Anything. Do you think to yourself "Why would he do that? That's bad!" or do you think "He's right for doing what he does because he's always right."? She's under the impression that he's a just ruler and father, so why wouldn't she be satisfied at the sight of him rendering justice to the foolish subject that disobeyed? Especially when having a different opinion can result to being in danger?

Do we get anything from the answer to her personality being "bad egg"?

No, we don't. Which is why this isn't what they did. You just have a false idea of pretty much everything regarding Azula's character and how it was handled.

Thus proven.

[projectcaramel]

Obey Me! Random Headcanon #18

The Undates + Luke's screentime

Diavolo

Average: 6 hours per day

Usually for work purposes, but when he gets sucked into games, he plays them whenever possible.

He doesn't let his D.D.D. fall asleep when he texts MC because he wants to make sure he doesn't miss their text back. *Person who frequently has to turn "Do Not Disturb" mode on (and forgets it's on) to stop his D.D.D. from sending him a notification every minute.

Barbatos

Average: < 10 minutes per day

Generally has no reason to use his D.D.D. unless it's to scold Diavolo talk to friends, but otherwise has little other motivation to use it.

This is not to say he never spends a lot of time with electronics. If it happens to be convenient and/or effective, Barb will not hesitate to use any of them for long periods of time.

Simeon

Average: 5 hours per day

We all know he's severely technologically challenged, and he generally does not use his D.D.D. when applicable. That being said, he surprisingly knows how to touch-type quite well (95 wpm) and will write for hours until Luke pesters him to please eat something.

Outliers for his D.D.D. screentime are generally days where someone engages in the monumental task of attempting to teach him how to use the device, where the victim volunteer can spend over 10 hours in a frustrating IT hell educating him.

Luke

Average: 2 hours per day

Luke generally uses his D.D.D. for recipes, similar to Beel, and puzzle games that Levi got him into.

Simeon used to check his screentime (with Levi's help) to make sure that Luke wasn't getting attached to his D.D.D. Although he now rarely does it and has conceded that Luke can probably spend longer on it, Luke rarely deviates from the 2 hour guideline he was originally given.

Solomon

Average: 7 hours per day

Spends a lot of time on ResearchGate, JSTOR, Academia, etc. along with Devildom sites like MallusR (Major source for current magic research), T-LCC (Three-Legged Crow Conglomerate)'s blog, and Deaddit (An open forum with striking similarities to Reddit).

His screentime easily fluctuates depending on who he's with, and with MC in particular, he does not use his D.D.D. at all unless they're doing something like watching funny cat videos.

-- Caramel: The global average screentime (2024) is 6 hours and 40 minutes. The recommended amount for adults is 2 hours.

No wonder my eyes hurt. --

[cho-aaacho]

(Hc's) Gamer Boyfriend! Gojo Satoru

Masterlist

Tags : Teen Gojo, Gamer Gojo, Classmate Gojo, Soft Gojo, Secret Crush, Best Friends to Lovers, Idiots in Love, Reader is Genderless.

The first time you met Gojo Satoru, you thought he was a typical basketball captain with a sunny aura emanating from him. He rarely talks to any other classmate; come on, he's so popular.

At that time, it was a nice summer in Tokyo. You and Shoko were cleaning the class, and he suddenly approached you, patted your shoulder, squeezed them a bit, and asked, "What is your Game ID?"

"Excuse me? I don't play such games, Gojo-kun."

"I'll teach you."

Such a weird boy, to be honest.

He brings two PSPs to school so you can play with him during lunch break.

"You know it's illegal to bring a console to school, Gojo-kun."

"Well, I have permission from Yaga-sensei. He gifted me that PSP as my birthday present. Hey, watch out; you'll lose."

He memorized all the gaming YouTubers' names along with their most-watched videos.

He wears a headband while playing games.

He is the leader of a gaming community's gang. It wasn't a bad gang; it was just a group of gamers who loved to share their interests.

He can spend 13 hours playing games on weekends, and he'll come out of his room only when his dad yells at him or when you visit his home.

Sleeping in class has become a habit for him. When he does that, he'll snuggle on your lap to hide his face from Yaga-sensei.

But Yaga-sensei always caught him.

His favorite song is Resident Evil—The Save Room, and he'll play that song while cleaning the classroom.

He always messages you when he's ready to play games. It almost makes you dizzy because he always spams you when you don't reply to him.

Despite how bad you are at the game, he'll teach you patience, talking in soft tones while guiding you step by step.

He rarely opens the mic, but when he does, he'll mock the other players and say how bad they are at the game. He's so aggressive, but you find it cute because he always tries his best not to include you.

"You're my best friend. I would never hurt you. Our team is just stupid; let's play another game, shall we?"

He loves Manga Cafes so much. He always invited you to join him and read all his recommendations.

"This manga is so good, but the MC is so lame and stupid."

Gladly to holding your hands in Akiba and making sure you don't fall or bump into someone else. His palm is so warm and big.

His mom loves you, and whenever he invites you to his mom, Mrs. Gojo will give you a nice and delicious cake along with expensive tea.

"Where's Satoru?" — Geto Suguru.

"He's in the manga cafes, I guess." — Ieiri Shoko.

Absent from school has been your weekly activity with him. But he doesn't want Yaga-sensei to catch you two. So you'll spend your time at his home, eating cake or ice cream, playing games, and taking a nap.

Of course, he didn't do anything else besides playing games or napping. He's a gentleman, after all. A good boy.

You can find him on Reddit.

He uses a combination of your name and his as a password for his computer, he even changes his Game ID to that.

He never cheats at games.

He is an admin of a Discord server and is talking about an underrated game.

"Hey, I know you and Satoru are close like a flower and water. But make sure to not miss my class, okay?" —Yaga-sensei

He hates Gacha games so much. He thought it wasn't a game at all. "My gacha luck is so bad this month. Oh, damn."

He has two different Twitter accounts. One with a cute avatar and only follows you. The other one he uses to share his gaming progress.

Gojo may be in love with you. Because every time you interact with someone else on the Discord server, he'll kick them; remember, he's an admin.

He loves to lean his head against your chest while playing games, and when he falls asleep, you let him be. He’s so dramatic but cute at the same time.

"Hey, I know it sounds crazy and lame, but hear me out. I don't know what will happen to us when we graduate. But I want to be your gaming buddy until we are old. Even if I have dementia, I will find another way to remember you."

"I want to spend my life with you, not only to play games but also to do everything with you. Because I love you."

[nicomoon69]

College AU (or a retirement job au?) where Bernard is a Biology Professor and Tim is a [doesn’t matter] Professor. For the sole purpose of this interaction:

Professor Drake accidentally enters the lecture hall Bernard was teaching in.

Professor Dowd, planning to use Drake as an example of how little we know about our bodies, asks “Professor Drake, could you tell me where your spleen is located?”

Drake replies, “Probably in a jar somewhere in Asia.”

Dowd: 😧

That interaction starts their enemies to lovers story. It was posted on the internet and it wants them to fuck

O MY GODS YES!!!! Bernard would hate Tim somehow being witty with the weirdest story ever and Tim would be so smug bc “HA gotchu”

and not to delve into headcanons but to delve into headcanons I think Tim should teach a language. like he somewhere while heroing does a smth part time and it’s something he already knows so he’s somewhat breezing through it outside of the like cultural side of the study (my preference goes for like Chinese or Ancient Greek) (also disclaimer idk how language studies work outside of the Netherlands so if that’s not how they work in the us mb) and then when he quits hero life does like a master before he ends up teaching at Gotham University (so this would be a retirement AU)

anyways I think them somehow not realizing its Bernard Dowd and Tim Drake from high school would be funny. like they’re beefing for months without ever noticing that “hey wasn’t that the weirdo I went to school with briefly” bc atp it would’ve been years (they’re like well into heir 30s I think) and neither of them rlly recognize the other outside of “hm this feels familiar but I’m not gonna look too deep into it”

also Bernard hating on Tim for being a rookie professor bc Bernard has been working at the university for years while Tim random ass decided after his master that “hey I mean since they asked me why the hell not teach”

and everyone at least somewhat knows of the homoerotic professor fights happening. like you said the internet wants them to fuck!!! someone made a reddit post or smth that blew up (and neither of them is aware bc Bernard learned to not be chronically online anymore and Tim quit the internet bc his psychologist told him to)

them realizing who the other is should also be the most anticlimactic thing ever. random student points it out and they both go “huh”

[fancy-graphics63]

Boxers Baby Sit Peter {Headcaanon}

With Mac Being a Boxer, And a Champian, He Doesn't Always Have time to be with his younger Brother, So, Here is a Little Headcanon for peter being baby set by the boxers.

Note:

I Did Share This Head Canon On Reddit First, But I Liked To Bring It Here On Tumblr This Is Based On My {And Some Others'} Headcanon, That Little Mac And SPO {SNES} Protagonist Are Siblings, With Little Mac Being The Older And SNES Mac {Who We Call Peter Punch Here} Is The Youngest

I Might Make A little Story About It, But Only God Know If I'll Do It Or Not

Glass Joe: Would Teach Peter About French Culture and maybe take him to a cafe {If peter was a good boy, he'll gift him a bag of french pastries}

Von Kiser: Might Treat Him Like How He Treat His Students, But Since Peter is a teenager, He Would Go A Bit harder on him {Still, he won't actually Hurt him}

Disco Kid: I Like To Imagine Disco Kid Having The "Rich Aunt" Energy, Where He Spoil Peter with Stuff, Plus Maybe dance together {Even when mac told him that peter should not listen to loud music}

King Hippo:��Similar To Disco Kid But With Food, Taking Him To A Restaurant And Have a Very Big Meal, To Big That Peter Was in Shock {ofc the boy didn't eat much, but it was kinda fun}

Piston Hondo: Ofc, He's Gonna Be The More Strict One, And Teaching The Boy Some Manners, And Maybe Tea Break

Bear Hugger: Probably Would Teach Him How To Play Hockey, And Spend some times with ms.bear, also, he might actually act like a mama bear with him

Great Tiger: Somehow Peter Got Out Of Control That Led to Tiger To Use, Not 4, Not 5, Not 6, But 8 Clones To Keep Him Under Control {Promised To Not Babysit Again after it}

Don Flamenco: Would Let Carmen Help Him With Peter, And Maybe Try To Influence Him On Typical Romantic Stuff, Like Roses {Peter Finds It Weird}

Aran Ryan: No

Soda Popinski: They Won't Do Much, But Soda Would Buy the boy a drink {Juice to be clear}

Bald Bull: Ofc He Will Not be actually Aggressive, Giving Him Being an Uncle Himself {HC From Someone} He Know How To Treat Such a Young Teen

Super Macho Man: Either Be Another "Rich Aunt", Or simply would not babysit at all

Mr. SandMan: Either 2 Things, Peter Finding Sandman so scary that he can't say no to him, or Sandman trying to BE Scary To make peter listen to everything he say {the difference is, our pete is not scared of sandie}

Bonus

I Saw Someone HC That He's Little Mac's Uncle so

Pizza Pasta: Would Gladly Take Care Of Peter While Mac Train {Also He Make Him Help Him In The Kitchen}

[sailingfireshipz]

Because @stellariders & @chicagofires are fueling this fire & I have very minimal self-control, here we fucking go.

First, let me preface this rant with the following context. This situation triggers me so much because I am a WOC in a predominantly male industry so I see myself in the struggles that Stella has been exposed to & it's simply not fucking fair. So this take will be framed from my POV...Perspective & Perception. The fact that I have to preface this rant with the above statement instead of just saying how I feel is exactly the fucking point I'm about to make 🙃

(Grab a snacky snack)

"You have to be what?"... you have to be 2x as good, work 3x as hard, to receive HALF of the recognition, praise, grace, & chances. They can fail upwards or even have a promotion fall into their hands "cough cough" whereas you have to drive yourself up the wall just to prove that you're worthy of the opportunity. Because ONE mistake can & will follow you throughout your entire career. & that constantly plays in the background, like static when it comes to Stella Kidd. & I feel like Stella knows that, which is why she came in, did her job, did it damn good, & proved that she can hang with the best of the best at 51 but it was never quite enough for some people & i wonder why. There's never been a moment where she has been above reproach or criticism. How can she be out of fear of being labeled difficult, aggressive, or hard to work with as the only "broad on truck" & let me be clear I'm using that term & phrase because thats exactly what Hermann said when she joined truck 81.... yuck! Anyway, how can she make a mistake when the few mistakes she has made have followed her. She fucked up in 7x02 why is it S10 & Casey if implying she can't come with him when Severide & squad 3 were under water because she might be to emotionally charged. (LOL excuse me but didnt you jump out of a moving firetruck when your poor Sylvie was hurt, hypocrite much?) Didn't see Brett or Violet volunteering to hop on the boat & Stella is a trained paramedic or EMT so she would have been an asset. She messed up in S8 so why did they just take away her teaching at the academy versus addressing burnout & how to prioritize her time to be able to do both, because she was & is fully capable of doing both she just needed direction & support...She made a mistake in S10 by going mia & she apologized profusely for it but it still felt like Kelly held back & almost iced her out a bit longer than necessary. But in S9 when he royally messed up she immediately took him back & told him she wasn't going to let him get away again even though it wasn't her fault, he iced her out to begin with. Oh not even touching on the fact that him icing her out in S9 absolutely fucked with her confidence in her abilities to the point she almost skipped out on the LT exam.....🙂

When her CAPTAIN no less saw her burning it on all fronts in S8.. what did he do? How did he act? Was it with compassion or care, or did he get snappy & reprimand? Did Stella argue, talk back, or provide excuses? No, instead, she took accountability for her actions & tried to do better even though she KNEW she was drowning & overwhelmed. Instead of creating a safe space for her to be like hey captain, I'm struggling prioritizing how you manage she went internal & pushed herself to the brink of self exhaustion that she could have killed herself or someone else.

So let's talk about how Gallo on the other hand came in & had his own share of potential life or death mistakes with Casey & how he was down right disrespectful to Pelham & how he was inappropriate in the attitude & tone he took with Stella when questioning her about Carver. I never saw fucking reddit think pieces on how disrespectful, cocky, arrogant or annoying he was. Nope! He got a pass & a slap on the wrist time & time again. Casey even sat down with him, bought him a beer & they talked it out. So why couldnt Stella get that same grace? Yet when Stella very respectfully told Pelham "hey hesrd you are a great ff but I'll have to see for myself" parts of this fandom erupted, calling her all types of jealousy , entitled, etc. Never once saw Stella defy Pelhams commands or undermined his leadership. I did, however, see her lay her budding career down on the line for a man she barely knew but did it because it was the right thing to do.

Casey was ready to cut Gallo loose on HIS FIRST fuck up after Boden told Casey he didn't want him at 51 because he was reckless. Had it not been for Boden providing Casey with Gallos' backstory, he would have cut him loose, i believe. Funny how Boden had to tell Casey about Gallos family history but Stella took it upon herself to try & work with & get to know Carvers backstory AFTER Boden, her mentor, her father figure & CHIEF told her who her next replacement on 51 was going to be.... Funny how the most turnover truck saw in 10 years was Jimmy, Gabby (chose not to return to truck) & Otis yet Stella is 2.5-3 years in & she's had to navigate through Mason, Gallo, Gibson, while dealing with shit from Carver & Damon.... you see the picture I'm painting here!?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but outside of Carver... who else has Boden forced his officers to take on their rig when they were explicitly against it..... I'll wait. Oh, but because "he's 51 material," you have to find a way to manage his bullshit & if you rewatch S11, Carver had a lot of BS. And I know we like Carver now because they abandoned the I have a crush on my married LT storyline, but I had actually forgotten how bad he was as an EMPLOYEE!

He is hot tempered & showcased high levels of aggression & anger in the workplace. Imagine Stella getting upset & punching or throwing things. Yelling at her LT or engaging in behavior that would have landed her in jail. Did we forget that this incident in S12 is Carvers' second physical altercation with a civilian... Never thought I'd be referencing Emma Jacobs, but one incident in the file is a hiccup.. two looks like a pattern of him not being able to control his temperament. We've seen Stella drunk ONE time because she'd been transferred out & they acted like she was being biligerant (go back & watch the scene & just look at how they're looking at her). Carver, however, is allowed to get drunk thrown in jail, call his LT to bail him out & Stella's supposed to what? Take it, leave her damn job in the middle of the night just for him to not be apologetic at ALL & then tell her oh this needs to stay been us. LMAO EXCUSE ME WHAT!!!!? & it would be one thing if this was a one off but AGAIN nope later in the SAME season he didn't just get himself into a physical altercation but dragged Gallo, Mouch, & Ritter into it also because he refused to REGULATE & walk away.

But wait, there's more. Remember how he went off on his LT in the locker room because he was upset & then proceeded to get drunk & call out on one shift & NCNS on another leaving her with no time to find a decent floater... & even after Kelly explicitly told her that she would lose no respect if she cut him loose, what did she do... she went to his apartment to check on him, make sure he was alright & gave him ANOTHER chance. Matt Casey, Kelly Severide & Hermann would absolutely never & I'm not saying it's a bad thing that Stella gave him so many chances what I'm saying is i don't feel like her reasoning behind all the chances were actually her own but more so rooted in not wanting it to be a failure on her part in the eyes of Boden. & that for me is problematic as hell.

Even in S12... for Carver to get into that restaurant brawl & immediately take furlough afterwards was just such a cowardly move because here you are AGAIN leaving your LT high & fucking dry on truck during a crirical time no less with Boden being up for that promotion!

Now, moving into this Damon storyline, I'm going to reserve a majority of my thoughts until we actually get to see it play out. However, one thing in the finale that was alarming to me was Stella's conversation with Violet. I interpreted it as Stella had all intentions of cutting Damon loose. He was a floater, she owed that man no loyalty & she specifically said she was in no rush to lock anyone down permanently after the Gibson issue. However, again, it felt like Stella decided to keep him on longer because of other external factors. ie: Carver leaving her high & dry again & Kelly seemed to like him. Those to me aren't good enough reasons because she's not making decisions that honor her experience with this man rather than those around her.

The reality is that Stella could have lost her command or even worse because of that brawl. That man could have reported them to the CFD brass, called the cops, blasted them in the media & SUED the CFD. & the first thing they would have asked Stella was why she did not have control of the scene or her direct reports. They would have hung this on her & the old hags at CFD would have been like see this is why women shouldn't be officers." Blah blah blah. The repeecussions would have been so much greater for Stella & could have derailed what shes worked so hard for & the fact that Carver & Damon don't get that irks me because they should have NEVER put her in that position to begin with. You don't bring reproach on your leader especially when your leader has run through walls to protect you, bailed you out of jail, hell thrown herself on top of you to shield you from a blast, etc.

& so in conclusion my next gripe is with the writers & showrunners because I wonder if they know. I wonder if they know & they're choosing to reinforce these stereotypical experiences without effectively addressing them. I wonder if they know that they're not romanticizing it all & that its not cute or funny but infuriating that it feeds a part of this fanbase that's actually disgusting & rooted in misogyny. Or maybe they don't know & it's a mixture of unconscious bias/ ignorance.

Regardless, it's 2024 & I'm tired of it! 😫 I'm all for showing the reality & challenges that women or woc in the CFD face on a day to day but I feel like why not use it as a platform to show that just because it's embedded in the systems doesn't make it right nor does it make a requirement for Stella or any other female officer to have to endure the shit. She should be able to fucking fire or discipline Carver, Damon or whoever on HER rig without being questioned on whether or not her emotions or personal experiences are clouding her judgment because she's earned that right. She studied, she worked her ass off, she took the test, she passed & she's the LT. She shouldn't have to explain why she gave Carver or anyone certain assignments because guess what? No assignment is too big or small when lives are on the line, right? She shouldn't have to feel obligated to keep Damon on her rig just because now he's her long lost BOL that withheld the truth from her his LT & even when he decided to come clean it wasn't to her his LT. I am praying that is not the narrative they push in S13 but tbh I wouldn't be surprised because they've already set the groundwork for it. She shouldn't have to explain her reasoning or endure another year of unprofessionalism on her rig all because the patriarchy will get upset that a woman is leading/ discipling men. Reading the comments on how Stella disciplined them in the finale really bothered me because yall can't be serious! Stella had ever right to be upset, to express that frustration & disappointment with them because at the end of the day, that was her scene, her fire fighters & her responsibility as the officer in charge.

It feels like the men on the show are allowed to have their emotions, their traumas, their demons & it be brushed over or romanticized with little to no consequence. However, that same grace is not extended to the strong female leads that have just as much trauma, pain, or demons. They vilified Gabby for hers & they try to do the same to Stella. it's not fair because if they were males, we wouldn't have the conversations of "Stella leading Grant on" "Stella putting people lives in danger" or "Stella's on a power trip & has let her rank go to her head"

I know that was a lot & if you made it to the end of this rage rant, thank you. This has been something I've been sitting on since S11 & tbh it feels good to get it out! 🥹

[bartletslesbians]

... so do most people take "Columbia" to be Columbia University, and not Colombia the country? I always thought Toby meant he was spending time in the Physical location of the country. That's (one of the reasons) why Andy wasn't with him and why Jed didn't ask about the kids, but about where he was. Cause he was away from them in another country.

"Not such a bad place to spend some time.".

With 'place' and 'spend some time' I always thought it was the country, not teaching at a college. Though I might be literally the only person to think that lol

I've definitely seen that assumption reddit before! It never crossed my mind that it might've been Colombia the country, cause on the subtitles I had on the episode (I can't go back and check HBO now cause they removed it from a lot of non US countries) it just said "Columbia", which given that he's from New York made sense to me?

It's never specified what he's doing there; it could, technically just as easily be a month long project and then he's back in DC. But I like the idea that he was there as professor more longterm! Toby seems like someone who would make a great college professor (and one of those teachers some people are terrified of but everyone appreciates having for any given course), and I love that career for him after politics obviously stopped being a feasible option.

I took the "not a bad place to spend some time" as a little nod to the confession and trial that was to come, but again that could easily be an indication that it's not a longterm position at all!

But it is such a shame that the twins aren't mentioned at all in the epilogue; which makes sense given the way Jed and Toby parted, there's still a lot of tension, but I would've loved to know how that family is doing at that point.

[kimyoonmiauthor]

Argument for Mao Mao (from Apothecary Diaries) being Ace...

BTW, currently sick and can't do much else... so...

but people misunderstand what it means to be ace?

I thought I would correct general misconceptions about asexuality by talking about Apothecary Diaries and why Maomao could be read as ace, as someone who is ace spec.

I kinda want to show the gaps in understandings about asexuality. This isn't particularly OMG, I'm going to hate on people for their lack of knowledge. If you enjoy that thing, please go away. I do not support bullying of any sort, yadda yadda, I thought this might be educational for allos out there.

BTW, not only using reddit.

No, Asexuality is limited, conditional, or no sexual *attraction* OR no interest in sexual activity (in which case, this is more than likely Black Stripe Ace, though not always).

But she shows it later therefore she's not ace? Nope. It means she could be ace spec. She's about 20 by the time she discovers sexual attraction.

Aesthetic attraction and sexual attraction aren't the same thing.

Mao Mao constantly says she understands why other people are attracted to Jinshi, but she is not. That could be aesthetic attraction.

One can have aesthetic attraction, without the sexual component.

lol Me all through high school.

You know how Het people sometimes say how their own sex is attractive and they can understand why people fawn over them? Same with aesthetic attraction.

She doesn't even fawn over him.

When she hears about someone handsome, she has zero interest in seeing them.

When she states this she's dispassionate, but she only states this *after* everyone else fawns over him. She even passed him earlier in Episode 1 and didn't even notice him whereas everyone else noticed him almost instantly:

which shows she's going by other people's reactions, not particularly her own. I float sometimes doing that, BTW. Especially since I have limited Aesthetic attraction too.

Emotionally repressed and Low EQ people still have sexual attraction. Likewise, highly emotionally intelligent people can be ace.

But confess to me out of hand and I'll flounder.

So short bit here, but my Mom (white) is somewhat emotionally repressed and controlling of her emotions. But she definitely has and has expressed sexual attraction which left me floored.

She said, for example, my soccer coach was sexy, which was awkward as a teenager. I saw the aesthetic attraction, but not the sexual attraction.

Now I'm probably more high in EQ, very expressive, and I'm still ace.

Mao Mao might express that she doesn't like to talk about her feelings that much, is disinterested because she wants to work on her career, but she also talks about sex in a very cold factual way. One does not preclude the other. I don't get it? Does this mean emotionally repressed people appear asexual to people? Or that emotionally repressed people can't be asexual? We have to work on this one and workshop it.

The reason *i* think Mao Mao could be asexual is because she keeps saying, I understand why this woman or why this man would be attractive to *someone else* and keeps saying after the Courtesans "teach" her things, "But I will never use it."

And those are ace lines.

A lack of healthy of emotions or sex doesn't make people think things like But I can understand why this person could be attractive to other people. Ah, a lot of people seem to like this person.

I've talked to a lot of people who were in similar situations and they didn't end up ace or appearing ace.

She also actively cringes when Jinshi flirts with her.

Emotionally repressed as an excuse again. Emotionally repressed people can be ace. And likewise they can be not ace. I've heard people in abused situations who are careful of their own sexuality, but they don't *cringe* when they are flirted with.

lol I do get the distant feeling of, "Oh, this person is trying to flirt with me, I feel really uncomfortable. How do I reject them?"

My allo relative said they'd find it a compliment. But I semi panic every time.

From Episode 2.

Yeah, like this. When she did this, this was when I started to suspect she was really ace. Her age, also, at the beginning is 17. 17 is late to not have sexual attraction, even back in the day, though I think I posted an article about that misconception. This could also indicate she is ace.

I did see a few arguments that because Maomao is Chinese, that she couldn't be ace because Asian cultures are emotionally repressed. O.o; Huh? That's just racism right there. The people posting those indicated they weren't Asian...

I won't list those... since I don't want people chasing others. As a contrast, Saiunkoku Monotogari, which is often compared to this anime, I didn't think the main character, Shurei, of that anime/light novel was ace. She showed sexual attraction, but little interest in following through because she was focused on other things. Also, she was mostly oblivious, or acted like it on purpose.

Maomao, though has so little sexual attraction to Jinshi that she thinks he might be gay.

Episode 3.

She's not particularly invested in attracting Jinshi's attention beyond food and drinking poisons.

Demisexual is part of the asexual spectrum... It's part of the gra/ey-ace part of the spectrum.

People are confusing Black Stripe Aces with all of aces.

Lines she says from the anime come down to probably more towards Black Stripe, but in the grey area and probably Sex Indifferent, not repulsed.

BTW, I also didn't feel sexual attraction until my 20's.

But a lot of people think in order to be ace, you have to be sex repulsed and have absolutely no sexual attraction, primary or secondary. And no... not the case.

I also grew up in a household where both my parents were probably a bit too frank about sex. My sibling didn't end up ace spec, but I did. I also have a practical view of sex.

One can have romantic attraction or be gray-aro (which she sorta expresses too, like she's envious about people who can fall in love at times), and still be ace.

So you can be attracted to someone without the sexual attraction.

Maomao also shows Aesthetic attraction to women:

She seems to understand more aesthetic attraction to women than men, though this doesn't particularly make her lesbian given the contexts. (Not throwing out asexual lesbian or asexual bi either).

Bonus: Thoughts Maomao might be also aro?

She compares love to medicine, a thing she loves, but this also shows she's never been in love before.

I can hear, but they don't know what aromanticism is...

And the story says this in Episode 15 after saying someone made it to their 40th birthday without marrying. This indicates Jinshi thought this person (not giving the spoiler) thought this person had no romantic attraction and wasn't aware of any relationships.

She's 17 and never been in love and doesn't particularly show romantic attraction either...

BTW, someone did say the author specifically hates the Jinshi and Maomao ship and there is some indication already that the story might end sadly with Jinshi might need to sacrifice Maomao. (She requested if he ever does, he gives her poison, which, BTW, would also give the story an out to an indicated happy ending).

Conclusion

OK, What I'm pointing to here, is that people seem to have a really skewed view of asexuality, as a whole.

They think that demisexuality is a different sexuality from asexuality. (Or in the worst case, there are only three camps of asexuality Death to the Lithosexuals and Ace fluxes...?).

Or in order to be ace you have to have no libido, no interest in sex... and can't have romantic attraction. That you can't be emotionally repressed and be ace.

I'm telling you you can. I've met aces of all kinds. And I've met allo people who definitely express sexual attraction while they are really emotionally repressed.

Ah, I feel like we have a long way to go...

BTW, I'm also gray-aro, in my head canon, Maomao reads also aro.

Oh there was a claim that Japanese don't know about asexuality, but they do. There was an entire really good drama about it, too. Though the main character is Black stripe ace and rather chaotic at first. lol I feel that chaos energy (as a grey-ace, though). I cringe so hard, but I feel it.

Koisenu Futari

BTW, I pushed for this drama since no one would cover asexuality correctly from Korea, I asked someone Japanese to do it... TT You have no idea how many years I asked Korea and Korea failed a few times over. lol When I said I was totally clueless around sexual attraction and that one could still do found family in the request, they totally put that in. Though not the way I was accidentally insensitive...

They mainly covered Black Stripe, though. Which is fair. But still managed to cover shades of Black Stripe in this drama.

Anyway, it is a reasonable head canon to think Maomao is ace. One can be emotionally repressed and ace.

[hulahoopsoupgroup]

I'll take anything, Canon au, modern au, I need my babies to be happy 😭

well, for starters, i have three vision types i could see clervie getting. i'll probably write a full fic in the near future, but lets start out with some silly little vision headcanons:

(spoilers for my fic utc)

1. anemo. i think we can all see this, with clervies main goal being freedom

lets say that, whenever peruere and clervie are in the arena together, arguing about who should take over the house and all that, once clervie says "the only freedom i truly possess is the freedom to choose to die," shes proven wrong by an anemo vision shooting down from the sky, and when she takes it, a little wind sprite appears on her shoulder, guiding her to safety and obscuring the air around her to hide her from any fatui soldiers that may be lurking nearby

arle goes and kills crucabena like normal and takes over the house, and before assuming her duties as a harbinger, she and clervie take a long time to travel around teyvat like they dreamed of doing when they were kids

2. hydro. i thought of this while writing the fic. clervie seems like she felt very strongly about getting justice for the kids at the house, and getting justice for what crucabena did to them. at first, she thought justice looked like getting crucabena put in prison and letting someone else take over the house, but then it changed to killing crucabena and having arlecchino take over the house. she always followed her gut on what justice looked like

so what if, one day when shes taking one of her coded notes out to the guardes in the forest one day, a hydro vision appears in front of her eyes, and she takes it, a look of wonder in her eyes, then looks around to make sure none of the fatui hiding around saw it and holds the vision out to the guardes and says "officers, i think i saw someone walk through here and drop this vision. can i go to the guardes station and report what he looked like so you guys can find him?" and nudges them so that they take her back to the court of fontaine, where she files a report against crucabena for child abuse and neglect, and shes tried at the opera epiclese and exposed and humiliated by so many testimonies from the kids

neuvillette himself congratulates clervie and makes sure every child under the house is protected until a new leader is chosen, or until clervie comes of age and can legally assume the position of mother of the house

the fortress of meropide makes sure that crucabenas (life) sentence is extra miserable, and makes sure to treat her the same way she treated her kids. she never got any visits from them

3. dendro. i thought about this a couple days ago and i thought it was kind of interesting. i saw somewhere (cant remember where but it was probably a reddit thread) about the different characteristics that characters of each element shared, and for dendro, it was a fascination/love for something (like for nahida, its humans, for tighnari, its plants, for kaveh, its architecture, etc)

i think for clervie, it would be something similar to nahida, a love for humanity, a love for the kids at the hearth. shes the mother that they never had.

lets say that during that last "showdown" at the arena, clervie talks about how much she loves the kids at the hearth and doesnt want to see them suffer, and how she wants someone to be there to guide them and teach them, and how she doesnt think shes worthy to do that, but then a dendro vision comes flashing down in front of her, and she looks at peruere with wide eyes.

lets say peruere somehow convinces clervie to go to that other building that crucabena kept the younger members of the house whenever she made all the teens kill each other, and make sure theyre all safe in one place while peruere goes to kill crucabena

while thats happening, clervie entertains the kids by filling pots with dirt and using her vision to sprout pretty flowers out of thin air. she loves seeing them smile, and she wants nothing more than to be there to teach the kids and make sure they grow up strong and happy

while theyre on their little teyvat world tour, arle and clervie buy several books and other academic supplies for the kids back home

[cosmic-nebula356]

Stirling as a dad

Picture this! The guy is 310 years old, always boasting and being dramatic about death and tragedy, now has a tiny small human in his hands that he helped made come to life. Even leaving him flabbergasted as to how it was possible to even happen.

He was familiar with death, god knows what kind of stuff he had to go through as a child, but life? Not really. He’s been a vampire for so long, he’s literally (and has confirmed that he used to be human at some point before) lost touch with his humanity. So seeing someone as scary and cold-hearted as Stirling, learning to become gentle and soft with his own child is precious to me.

And if the child is a human vampire hybrid, chances are he will do his best to teach them how to fly, shapeshift, hunt, etc. Bonus if he taught them how to walk on the ceiling.

💖💖💖

Old art btw

Here’s the link to the rest of the old art I made of Stirling and his baby:

[thetruthisoutthereandbeyond]

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I knew I had more comments but there was so much information to wade through that I lost track of a few.

Here is the ever-changing foster care situation in MrsFizzle's own words.

What she told MA:

Shawn going back to his father was realistic, painfully so, and I know that far too well. 

This very much seems to imply she has experienced this herself. In her Autumn in Philadelphia comments below she tells MA she is licensed to adopt through foster care, so it's not much of a skip to make.

What she told Reddit you can read for yourself here, here, and here.

And what she tells a reader:

How could you not remember?

Canon inaccuracies aside (the Matthews did help Shawn a lot and offered to adopt him even. Alan did become his father figure at Shawn's request. In the season 5 episode "Graduation" Minkus lets us know that Jon is still teaching on the "other side" of the building where Shawn and Cory don't go with his infamous "Hey, Mr. Turner, wait up!"), look what she says here: Admittedly, I started writing this without any real experience of my own to work from, just stories from foster parent friends.

That is most certainly not the impression she gave everyone else. I can't say I'm surprised she was "borrowing" other people's stories without crediting them. And that isn't the issue. MA herself says that a lot of the situations in her stories come from her students' lives, many of whom she says are very much like Shawn.

The difference here is the willingness to be open about where the stories come from. I see Shawn story after Shawn story in the fandom where the authors share where their stories come from with many if not all being from personal experience.

There is no shame in this either. Authors everywhere throughout time have taken stories from real life and written about them. It's what authors do, you know?

So why isn't MrsFizzle willing to do the same? Why does she tell one reader this and another that?

Under normal circumstances, no one would likely make any of these connections because most authors don't link their socials like she does. However, when you use the same couple of names and have those names linked across all of your social media mixing fandom and personal, things like this may very well come to light. And when you appear to be deceitful with those linked socials, this is the risk you take: exposing yourself.

Going back over this reminded me of the extraordinary amount of guest comments MrsFizzle got that I could not see any other Jon and Shawn authors getting at the time and the extraordinary amount of empty registered accounts that were all created after MA went public with the plagiarism claims. I had a hard time finding these accounts interacting with other BMW stories at the time. Maybe I missed them but, I use that nifty little find the word feature my browser has and there almost no overlap.

I just wonder where these hordes of fans are coming from when she has almost no public presence outside of Reddit and AO3 and what she has is not in this fandom. From what I see on AO3, these accounts are not flocking to her stories in general, only to Reunification.

Why?

I can't answer that.

But I did do some tests to see if you can manipulate your own stats with a drabble on my own account. And you can.

Log out of your account and you can leave a guest kudo. Use a different device, leave a guest kudo. Use a private browser, leave many over time. Get a few friends and you can rack up a lot in a short amount of time. Same for hits. Same for guest comments. And it doesn't take much to get another AO3 account, you just need an email address and a little patience.

What I'm saying is ultimately stats mean nothing. They can be manipulated. It's something to bear in mind for both reader and writer no matter your fandom. There will always be someone in every fandom that will value stats over everything else and use deception to get them.

It that what happened here?

I don't see evidence of MrsFizzle having a large enough fan base from her most written for fandoms to gain this organically. I think if she did, you'd see it on those stories as well. Superman- various media, Supernatural, Doctor Who, and Harry Potter are huge fandoms while BMW is very small by comparison. I don't see how you would get a bigger following in BMW than one of these others. I just don't see evidence that these fans of hers are following her to BMW or that BMW fans are flocking to her and not other Jon and Shawn writers too.

But I could be wrong. Only she knows the truth.

I believe this all that was left of the comments. I will update this post if I come across anything else.

-DS

[emblemxeno]

The issue is that you provided very little support to your claim. You repeatedly say within it to go read it, would it not be easier to provide the examples and then explain them a bit more in detail for what you see in it? Instead, you just repeat read this support, then this one, then this ending. People enjoy seeing someone write out the example, and what your take is. Your responses to other people are, in a way, dismissive themselves. You also speak in a very uncaring way, as if using memes is a valid way to explain her character. I've seen 2nd graders give better statements on their favorite animal than this. At the end of it all, you failed to give a good argument in your main post on what value she has as a character (who most people on this sub already have a low view of) and in subsequent responses failed even more to defend yourself in a respectful way. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/fireemblem/comments/15oo22e/comment/jvtvdzp/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I think sentiments like this being so en masse enforced in FE communities on top of so utterly disrespectful to somebody's argument and sourcing from the game itself is a microcosm of everything wrong with this community. They are literally using the first impression to cut out any sort of merit it may have, and when presented evidence like the poster of the Reddit thread has, it's just dismissed as lacking merit regardless of the context and moving the goalposts. It's such Brian Griffin-tier midwit behavior that's so dismissive that it's virtually insulting. Also, fuck off and die for that "I've seen 2nd graders given better statements than that" comment, that was not needed.

It's so fundamentally against the idea of FE Fates having depth because, as you're essay shows, FE is outright dependent on player participation with the world, characters and stories to open them up. FE Fates requires by far the most participation, and treating it as a game and not an experience to actually dissect and compare details to means you're gonna hate it playing it from a completionist level. Meanwhile, you'd have bad writing like 3H get forced down people's throats and people call it great despite it not doing anything revolutionary that the game hasn't done. FE is a game that involves the player to truly enjoy the work and their own creativity and willingness to participate in the context; the FE fandom not just wants to minimize and cut out said participation to play the game less, they praise 3H for context that was already there because they are too lazy to actually acknowledge their context.

Legit, I was talking to BlazingKnight (yes, I was once friends with him) the other day on my outright dismal attitude to these types of fans because of how much they claim the purpose of the series is cutting out the player participation despite that literally going against all sentiments of IntSys or the series, and he got pissed enough because to him "not all fans who like playing meta are bad". And that's true, and not the problem; the problem was considering it the only right way to enjoy the series and that what's good and bad is neatly divided into corners of right and wrong in such an abstract, unattainable way that they're always right when people challenge it, because it's not even wrong (in rational speak, something that is so impossible to falsify or not that it's not just not only right, it's not even wrong). And the FE fandom has such smug egos that they think they're the only ones with the right way to play and try to teach at college-level courses to stratify the right way to play... in a game that's fundamentally and inherently subjective. It stops becoming justifiable and more of an excuse to be seen as part of the big boy's club.

I don't share violent sentiments to these types of fans, but they're fucking horrible and a microcosm why my time in the FE fandom was so fucking dismal. If this is the way they treat people who dare source context they readily dismiss or deem to not exist even with evidence right in front of them, then no wonder 3H discourse is so utterly toxic you can show Edelgard fans their person committing genocide and they'll find some way to excuse it.

I mean, yes I agree the attitude is bleak and something that should be evolved out of. And I'm also incredibly upset that horrible things can be glossed over, excused or even defended because FE fans have too big of lore boners and "OMG EVERY LOCATION HAS A *NAME* AND THE CHARACTERS GET S A D asagbfasbgfasgf" mentalities to real dive deep into what actually they're discussing. Too deep in factionism and their own biases, and all that.

But still, there was a reason I deleted the old ask about this same topic. You have toned it down in this one, which I appreciate. Please be similarly mindful in the future I guess.